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Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Gracebae(f): 11:24pm On Jun 03, 2017
Still on the Niger delta question.


I have watched the way many people claiming Niger Deltans have been shouting Nigerdelta republic lately and it makes me laugh at not only our delusion but also at our stupidity as a people. Whether those claiming Niger delta are really Niger deltans or not is not my problem.
My problem is the way some people have carried this identity like as it is an identity given to them by God. Am of the opinion that its high time we started answering our ethnic name instead of hiding under the tag Niger delta to create confusion. Especially those edo, benin and itshekiri people who have no contribution to the Niger delta struggle as well as the greedy delusional ijaws. The only thing that makes us Niger delta is the oil. Outside oil, we are a different people.

Now, i speak for myself and based on the conversation we have within my family(Ibibio father and Ogoni mother)

Now this is it

1)The name Niger delta represents all the oil producing states with two states from the south east and ondo state from the south west and the six south south states. So if my people say we are going for a Niger delta republic, will it include the other states in the west and east?

2) if we then say just the south south states, what now happens if the igbos in the south south decide to join their people in the east leaving, efik,ibibio,ogoni,ijaw,urhobo,isoko,itshekiri,benin,esan,afemai, akoko edo and any other ethnic group in the delta. Again must we name it Niger delta republic which is an exploitative name given to us by the Nigerian state to enslave us and our resource and if we choose another, what will the name be? What will the flag be like? Where will be the capital (this is the one that will lead to total division if care is not taken)

3) within the delta, ijaws and itskekiri are bloody rivals, infact not just with itshekiri, they have always had expansionist agenda, they claim they are in akwaibom which is foolish anyways, that they own warri, recently they are claiming a part of edo state which has threatened war. Is the south south not going to be a perfect example of the south sudan other Nigerians try to use to blackmail Biafra? Ibibios too don’t like the ijaws anyways. We see them as greedy,lazy and having domineering tendencies.

4) Now as an ibibio, i usually ask myself what makes me similar to a bini and itshekiri who are more like yorubas, than igbos who are not just my direct neighbours whom we have lived and traded with for thousands of years without any form of domination, have had the highest inter tribal marriage rate with, share the same market dates, look similar both in looks, culture and value and worshipped Amadioha in Arochukwu together with the efiks and ijaws, not forgetting that Abiriba and arochukwu people in present day abia state are a mixture of ibibios and igbos and they share the same ancestry), also we share the nsibiri alphabet with them(igbos) together with the efiks

5) The igbos i know are very republican and industrious hence they don’t really depend on government or on one source to make a living, meaning they will most likely have the most diversified economy, can that be said of the south south where most of the youths especailly from the down south riverine states are so fixated on oil. i dont intend to brag but yes the ibibios and itshekiri are the only ethnic groups that are industrious like the igbos in the Niger delta but we are disadvantaged numerically.

6) If the igbos decide to do it alone and they eventually succeed and leave us behind, will we be able to unite and fight our battle? Knowing too well that we will become even more minor when the igbos are gone...for example if with the igbos we are 4 fighting the north and the west with a combined strength of 6. Assuming the igbos alone are 2.5 out of 4 and are gone leaving us with 1.5, will 1.5 be able to fight 6?

7) The Niger delta cannot deny that we are even more divided than the igbos, yes. The igbos just had a successful sit at home protest. Can the Niger delta have such, knowing too well that having a central leader that will be acceptable to all will be the most difficult thing? We have had Asari dokunbo, tompolo who even though where fighting for the ijaw interest claimed to be fighting for the Niger delta. ok, let’s assume they were fighting for the Niger delta, Ayiri mami who is also a Niger deltan and also has cult following among the itshekiri was busy sabotaging their efforts for his own personal gain and contract from Abuja in the name of itshekiri agenda. There by subverting the struggle. Let’s not forget that itshekiri shows more allegiance to the yorubas than any other ethnic group in the delta. Again we can’t forget the NDDC and amnesty programme where the ijaws cornered most the allocations to themselves which forced other groups to protest...

cool The Niger delta also have the most greedy, selfish and corrupt leaders, second only to northern leaders. yes... it is always easy to talk about Aba in abia state, but have we taken time to look at delta and bayelsa states which are one of the richest states based on allocation but cannot pay salaries. Bayelsa is even worse because the people are not enterprising. Remove the igbos there, yenegoa will be grounded economically. The governor once said it. Now all the so call Niger delta struggle from NDPVF, to MEND to NDA where are they now and where have they all ended? I guess we can ask the Edwin clarks, the james iboris, the alameysia, the uduagans, the tomopolos, the Ayiris mamis and other Niger delta warlords and Politian’s whose way of living can only be rivalled by the princes of Arab..

9) What will happen to bakassi? Will the Niger delta be able to get bakassi back alone? Knowing to well we are also divided. To the bini man or the isoko man or itshekiri man, it is not his business and he cares less. He will not feel it the way an efik and ibibio will feel it. On the diplomatic front, can we rally ourselves to muster a worldwide diplomatic campaign the way the igbos through ipob are doing to the envy of Nigeria. Nigerians never believe igbos could unite and rally themselves for a course. Infact by virtue of their spread round the world, if they play their cards well diplomatically, they have a better chance of having biafra faster and in the case of war, they can use their connections round the world to get arms..

10) Finally...I am ibibio and yes i have my reservations about igbos as a people (nobody is perfect anyways) but they have a better side which is more beneficial and I still prefer the Niger delta with the igbos in biafra because the minorities can use the igbos as a uniting factor because left alone, we the south south are not united. At worse, let us have a written and signed agreement as to how we will live with them. The igbos can never be as bad as the hausa fulanis. The igbos contribute more economically to everywhere they find themselves. infact in Biafra, am very confident that once a sea port is built in uyo and it is linked to Aba through train, i see uyo being the fastest growing economies in Africa courtesy the igbos and I see aba closing up with portharcourt to form a megapolis and yes i shared more with the igbos than i share with any deltan west of river Niger and if others are not willing to go with the biafra, me and my family will go with biafra(This are words from my dad)..

In conclusion, instead of dancing naked all over the internet because of biafra,igbos and oil, I rather we focus our energy on how to partner with the igbos, have an agreement with them and fight this struggle together. We should avoid the mistakes the igbos and yorubas make. Instead of them uniting together and leading the southern front against the north, the pretend not to be concerned when it doesn’t affect them.. just as ipob is doing, imagine the yorubas have a group like ipob also agitating, am sure the north by now will be panicking, but as it is, the yorubas are acting like the agitation is an igbo thing, all they do is sit down in their room and issue statements on restructuring but no action has be taken to put pressure on the government. Rather they through the media blackmail the igbos, Nnamdi kanu and try to water down the efforts of Ipob. If the igbos tomorrow abandon Biafra for restructuring and restructuring is eventually granted, the same yorubas will come out to claim they fought for restructuring...yet at the end, it is the igbo blood that has liberated all of us. So please my people from the delta, i don’t want us to make the same mistake the yorubas and igbos are making. It’s high time to united with the igbos to form a formidable force to liberate us all. These are the same igbos that stood with Jonathan till the end and they are paying for it even till today under buhari's government(95%/5%). If we miss this opportunity, we may have ourselves to blame. For every drop of division thrown between we and the igbos, the North is more empowered and emboldened.... In the words of attorney generalofthe federation, "Forget about Restructuring" for how long are we going to continue like this?

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Gracebae(f): 11:28pm On Jun 03, 2017
These are some of the similarities between we are the igbos, let someone tell me the similarities between ibibios and urhobo, itshekiri, isoko, bini, afemai,and other western Niger delta.

atleast we and the igbos together ran eastern nigeria together as partners..


[quote1. Just like certain Igbo groups salute "Igbo mmammanu", the Annang also have this salutation.

The Annang salute:
[Name of group] mmamma,
Response: yo
[Name of group] mma,
Response: yo
[Name of group] mmalee
Response: yooo


The Igbo salute:
[Name of group] mmammanu
Response: ei
[Name of group] mmammanu
Response: ei
[Name of group] mmammanu
Response: eeeh

2. The word oyoyo means 'dear' in both the Igbo and Efik languages.

3. Uwa means 'world' in both Igbo and Ibibio-Efik. Igbo would say 'Uwa mu' whereas the Ibibio-Efik would say 'Uwa mi'.

4. Obasi, meaning 'God' in certain Igbo dialects, is a corruption of the Ibibio-Efik Abasi.

5. The Ibibio-Annang masquerade genre known as Ekpo is practiced by Igbo groups in Abia and Imo states.

6. The Ekpe masquerade cult and the Iyamba (women's Ekpe cult) are both practiced by the Efik and certain Igbo groups in Abia and Ebonyi states.

7. Igbo town-naming traditions often place the prefix 'Umu-' before a towns name to denote descent. The Ibibio-Efik peoples also do the same. Their own version is 'Ikot-'.

8. The Efik and Igbo share market days. I'll post the names of the market days when I remember them.

9. Utazi (a vegetable) in Igbo is utasi in Efik.

10. Udele (vulture) in Igbo is utere in Efik.

11. The Igbo and the Ibibio-Annang both use leopard hats as indicators of membership in leopard societies and political cults.

12. The practice of sending an engaged maiden to a fattening house (known in Abia State as 'mgbede'), where she will be well-looked after and prepared for marital life, is observed by both the Igbo and Ibibio-Efik.quote]

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Nobody: 2:03am On Jun 04, 2017
Sometimes I wonder why the so called Niger Delta people want to be with an Hausa person because of fear of domination by igbos. They seem not to know who is their natural allies. There heads tell them that it is only oil that makes a country. What about military and defence , food security, Intl diplomacy etc. They seem not to learn even with the travails of GEJ and the treatment meted out to him because of his minority issue. Which people stood by him even till the end? Those "Mba mmiri" people will never learn. Instead of coming up to support this course and strictly articulate how they want to be treated in a new state, they are busy ruminating over a distorted history of how igbos want to take their oil. As if there are no oil wells in igboland. I'm fact, I am of the strong opinion that a separate referendum should be held for all those Niger delta people to determine if they will want to be part of Biafra. The South South people will never learn.

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by EzeUche(m): 2:35am On Jun 04, 2017
I am an Aro Igbo and I am at home with the Ibibio as I am with other Igbo clans.

I have more in common with people in Akwa Ibom than I have with Igbos in Anambra and Enugu.

So when the we the SS Yoruba always try to poke their nose in Eastern affairs, it upsets me greatly.

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Amberon11: 3:53am On Jun 04, 2017
Just so you know before the creation of NDDC, we had always referred to ourselves as Niger Deltans and minus that it is nobody's business what we choose to call ourselves... In the same vein we care less what your new country will be named, whether Biafra or anything else, we care less.

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Gracebae(f): 6:30am On Jun 04, 2017
irahub:
Sometimes I wonder why the so called Niger Delta people want to be with an Hausa person because of fear of domination by igbos. They seem not to know who is their natural allies. There heads tell them that it is only oil that makes a country. What about military and defence , food security, Intl diplomacy etc. They seem not to learn even with the travails of GEJ and the treatment meted out to him because of his minority issue. Which people stood by him even till the end? Those "Mba mmiri" people will never learn. Instead of coming up to support this course and strictly articulate how they want to be treated in a new state, they are busy ruminating over a distorted history of how igbos want to take their oil. As if there are no oil wells in igboland. I'm fact, I am of the strong opinion that a separate referendum should be held for all those Niger delta people to determine if they will want to be part of Biafra. The South South people will never learn.

that is why i believe its better we start identifying ourselves by ou ethnic groups and stop lumping everybody into Niger delta. Niger delta is not an ethnic group, neither is it one. it is made up of several nations and we are a different at that.

most of those who carry that we ND rubbish on their head are usually the down south riverine tribes especially the ijaws and those west of the Niger. Have anyone hear or seen our people carry guns in the name of militancy? we are too busy,educated,hardworking and sophisticated just like the igbos for that. We focus on the real deal to which at the end obong victor attah is the real father of resource control together with ekwueme an igboman who suggested and fought for the 13% derivation we in the Niger delta are enjoying today...that is why i keep telling them, without the igbos , i pity us because we will be worse than the kurds in Iraq. The igbos have always been with us at critical times from resource control to jonathan, i wonder how our people develop short memories these days

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Gracebae(f): 6:35am On Jun 04, 2017
Amberon11:
Just so you know before the creation of NDDC, we had always referred to ourselves as Niger Deltans and minus that it is nobody's business what we choose to call ourselves... In the same vein we care less what your new country will be named, whether Biafra or anything else, we care less.
they were referred to as people of the riverine areas who live along the delta, it does not inculd the up land niger delta. the main deltans are lowland rivers,bayelsa and lowland delta...those of the up land, edo,anioma,akwa ibom, cross river are not in anyway deltan. we were made deltans because of OIL.

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Trut(m): 6:55am On Jun 04, 2017
Love this thread

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by prince9851(m): 9:12am On Jun 04, 2017
Painful thread for skull miners

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by bennymark(m): 9:42am On Jun 04, 2017
irahub:
Sometimes I wonder why the so called Niger Delta people want to be with an Hausa person because of fear of domination by igbos.

CHOICE
Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Agumbankembu: 9:46am On Jun 04, 2017
I am an Ngwa man from Obingwa, the next community is Annang community, my mum is from Annang. I feel more closer to Annang than other Igbos, because when I was growing up, the youths of our community and the youths of Annang community used to do communal farm efforts, don't know how to explain it, but our people will go help out Annang farmers this week, the other week, they come and help us out.
That is also how we used to do when it comes to Palm cultivation, the boundary between our communities is made of palm plantation, we cut palm trees together, am talking about in the 90s.
I am fluent in Annang dialect, and even now I live in Uyo, I picked up Ibibio easily.
The only place I see Igbo rabid haters from AkwACross is on NL. I have never met anyone of them in my life.
I tell people, come Abiapoly, 1/3 of the population is from AkwaCross, most of them don't go back immediately after graduation.

I feel inclined to be with my kinsmen since the whole madness started.

Ima mmi, everything you said is akpanikan.
Abasi uyong fien.
Abadie?

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by bennymark(m): 9:48am On Jun 04, 2017
Gracebae:


that is why i believe its better we start identifying ourselves by ou ethnic groups and stop lumping everybody into Niger delta. Niger delta is not an ethnic group, neither is it one. it is made up of several nations and we are a different at that.

most of those who carry that we ND rubbish on their head are usually the down south riverine tribes especially the ijaws and those west of the Niger. Have anyone hear or seen our people carry guns in the name of militancy? we are too busy,educated,hardworking and sophisticated just like the igbos for that. We focus on the real deal to which at the end obong victor attah is the real father of resource control together with ekwueme an igboman who suggested and fought for the 13% derivation we in the Niger delta are enjoying today...that is why i keep telling them, without the igbos , i pity us because we will be worse than the kurds in Iraq. The igbos have always been with us at critical times from resource control to jonathan, i wonder how our people develop short memories these days


Your brain is working.

so can there be a Niger Delta devoid of the so called Biafra? What will happen when Biafra 'supposedly' breaks free, where will the Niger Delta look? especially with the degradation of their own lands in the name of millitancy after being brainwashed silly?

Gosh! the Nigerian story.

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Nobody: 10:21am On Jun 04, 2017
Gracebae:
[s]Still on the Niger delta question.


I have watched the way many people claiming Niger Deltans have been shouting Nigerdelta republic lately and it makes me laugh at not only our delusion but also at our stupidity as a people. Whether those claiming Niger delta are really Niger deltans or not is not my problem.
My problem is the way some people have carried this identity like as it is an identity given to them by God. Am of the opinion that its high time we started answering our ethnic name instead of hiding under the tag Niger delta to create confusion. Especially those edo, benin and itshekiri people who have no contribution to the Niger delta struggle as well as the greedy delusional ijaws. The only thing that makes us Niger delta is the oil. Outside oil, we are a different people.

Now, i speak for myself and based on the conversation we have within my family(Ibibio father and Ogoni mother)

Now this is it

1)The name Niger delta represents all the oil producing states with two states from the south east and ondo state from the south west and the six south south states. So if my people say we are going for a Niger delta republic, will it include the other states in the west and east?

2) if we then say just the south south states, what now happens if the igbos in the south south decide to join their people in the east leaving, efik,ibibio,ogoni,ijaw,urhobo,isoko,itshekiri,benin,esan,afemai, akoko edo and any other ethnic group in the delta. Again must we name it Niger delta republic which is an exploitative name given to us by the Nigerian state to enslave us and our resource and if we choose another, what will the name be? What will the flag be like? Where will be the capital (this is the one that will lead to total division if care is not taken)

3) within the delta, ijaws and itskekiri are bloody rivals, infact not just with itshekiri, the have always had expansionist agenda, they claim they are in akwaibom which is foolish anyways, that they own warri, recently they are claiming a part of edo state which has threatened war. Is the south south not going to be a perfect example of the south sudan other Nigerians try to use to blackmail Biafra? Ibibios to don’t like the ijaws anyways. We see them as greedy,lazy and having domineering tendencies.

4) Now as an ibibo and i usually ask myself what makes me similar to a bini and itshekiri who are more like yorubas, than igbos who are not just my direct neighbours whom we have lived and traded with for thousands of years without any form of domination, have had the highest inter marriage rate with, share the same market dates, look similar both in looks, culture and value and worshipped Amadioha in Arochukwu together with the efiks and ijaws, not forgetting that Abiriba and arochukwu people in present day abia state are a mixture of ibibios and igbos and they share the same ancestry), also we share the nsibiri alphabet with them(igbos) together with the efiks

5) The igbos i know are very republican and industrious hence they don’t really depend on government or on one source to make a living, meaning they will most likely have the most diversified economy, can that be said of the south south where most of the youths especailly from the down south riverine states are so fixated on oil. i dont intend to brag but yes the ibibios and itshekiri are the only ethnic groups that are industrious like the igbos in the Niger delta but we are disadvantaged numerically.

6) If the igbos decide to do it alone and they eventually succeed and leave us behind, will we be able to unite and fight our battle? Knowing too well that we will become even more minor when the igbos are gone...for example if with the igbos we are 4 fighting the north and the west with a combined strength of 6. Assuming the igbos alone are 2.5 out of 4 and are gone leaving us with 1.5, will 1.5 be able to fight 6?

7) The Niger delta cannot deny that we are even more divided than the igbos, yes. The igbos just had a successful sit at home protest. Can the Niger delta have such, knowing too well that having a central leader that will be acceptable to all will be the most difficult thing? We have had Asari dokunbo, tompolo who even though where fighting for the ijaw interest claimed to be fighting for the Niger delta. ok, let’s assume they were fighting for the Niger delta, Ayiri mami who is also a Niger deltan and also has cult following among the itshekiri was busy sabotaging their efforts for his own personal gain and contract from Abuja in the name of itshekiri agenda. There by subverting the struggle. Let’s not forget that itshekiri shows more allegiance to the yorubas than any other ethnic group in the delta. Again we can’t forget the NDDC and amnesty programme where the ijaws cornered most the allocations to themselves which forced other groups to protest...

cool The Niger delta also have the most greedy, selfish and corrupt leaders, second only to northern leaders. yes... it is always easy to talk about Aba in abia state, but have we taken time to look at delta and bayelsa states which are one of the richest states based on allocation but cannot pay salaries. Bayelsa is even worse because the people are not enterprising. Remove the igbos there, yenegoa will be grounded economically. The governor once said it. Now all the so call Niger delta struggle from NDPVF, to MEND to NDA where are they now and where have they all ended? I guess we can ask the Edwin clarks, the james iboris, the alameysia, the uduagans, the tomopolos, the Ayiris mamis and other Niger delta warlords and Politian’s whose way of living can only be rivalled by the princes of Arab..

9) What will happen to bakassi? Will the Niger delta be able to get bakassi back alone? Knowing to well we are also divided. To the bini man or the isoko man or itshekiri man, it is not his business and he cares less. He will not feel it the way an efik and ibibio will feel it. On the diplomatic front, can we rally ourselves to muster a worldwide diplomatic campaign the way the igbos through ipob are doing to the envy of Nigeria. Nigerians never believe igbos could unite and rally themselves for a course. Infact by virtue of their spread round the world, if they play their cards well diplomatically, they have a better chance of having biafra faster and in the case of war, they can use their connections round the world to get arms..

10) Finally...I am ibibio and yes i have my reservations about igbos as a people (nobody is perfect anyways) but they have a better side which is more beneficial and I still prefer the Niger delta with the igbos in biafra because the minorities can use the igbos as a uniting factor because left alone, we the south south are not united. At worse, let us have a written and signed agreement as to how we will live with them. The igbos can never be as bad as the hausa fulanis. The igbos contribute more economically to everywhere they find themselves. infact in Biafra, am very confident that once a sea port is built in uyo and it is linked to Aba through train, i see uyo being the fastest growing economies in Africa courtesy the igbos and I see aba closing up with portharcourt to form a megapolis and yes i shared more with the igbos than i share with any deltan west of river Niger and if others are not willing to go with the biafra, me and my family will go with biafra(This are words from my dad)..

In conclusion, instead of dancing naked all over the internet because of biafra,igbos and oil, I rather we focus our energy on how to partner with the igbos, have an agreement with them and fight this struggle together. We should avoid the mistakes the igbos and yorubas make. Instead of them uniting together and leading the southern front against the north, the pretend not to be concerned when it doesn’t affect them.. just as ipob is doing, imagine the yorubas have a group like ipob also agitating, am sure the north by now will be panicking, but as it is, the yorubas are acting like the agitation is an igbo thing, all they do is sit down in their room as issue statements on restructuring but not action has be taken to put pressure on the government. Rather they they throught the media blackmail the igbos, Nnamdi kanu and try to water the efforts of Ipob. If the igbos tomorrow abandon Biafra for restructuring and restructuring is eventually granted, the same yorubas will come out to claim they fought for restructuring...yet at the end, it is the igbo blood that has liberated all of us. So please my people from the delta, i don’t want us to make the same mistake the yorubas and igbos make. It’s high time to united with the igbos to form a formidable force to liberate us all. These are the same igbos that stood with Jonathan till the end and they are paying for it even till today under buhari's government(95%/5%). If we miss this opportunity, we may have ourselves to blame. For even drop of division thrown between we and the igbos, the North is more empowered and emboldened.... In the words of attorney "Forget about Restructuring" for how long are we going to continue like this?.[/s]
Afonja
Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Nobody: 10:44am On Jun 04, 2017
I did a thread on various ND kings, from different ethnic group pledging their support for Biafra. The thread was unfortunately brought down. The one that caught my attention the most was that of the Efik king. He was visibly angry at the status quo, from his speech. In reality, more people are getting tired of Nigeria.

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Nobody: 10:44am On Jun 04, 2017
Clinton9000:

Afonja
Guy, you dey see Afonja for your dream?

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by SlayerForever: 12:22pm On Jun 04, 2017
Great write up. There's a reason why militancy isn't rife in the AkwaCross: bcause they're different from the rest.

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Curlieweed: 1:24pm On Jun 04, 2017
mekuzi09:

Guy, you dey see Afonja for your dream?

The thing tire me.

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Curlieweed: 1:31pm On Jun 04, 2017
Gracebae:


that is why i believe its better we start identifying ourselves by ou ethnic groups and stop lumping everybody into Niger delta. Niger delta is not an ethnic group, neither is it one. it is made up of several nations and we are a different at that.

most of those who carry that we ND rubbish on their head are usually the down south riverine tribes especially the ijaws and those west of the Niger. Have anyone hear or seen our people carry guns in the name of militancy? we are too busy,educated,hardworking and sophisticated just like the igbos for that. We focus on the real deal to which at the end obong victor attah is the real father of resource control together with ekwueme an igboman who suggested and fought for the 13% derivation we in the Niger delta are enjoying today...that is why i keep telling them, without the igbos , i pity us because we will be worse than the kurds in Iraq. The igbos have always been with us at critical times from resource control to jonathan, i wonder how our people develop short memories these days

E be like say you get one Igbo BF. grin.

This kind support for NL cannot be ordinary.

Anyway, I have Annang family members but every man for himself. I'm sick and tired of multiethnic nations.

Good fences make good neighbors. Abeg.
Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by honeychild(f): 1:40pm On Jun 04, 2017
Clinton9000:

Afonja

You just disgraced yourself. You didn't even read the post before screaming afonja.

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by waledeji(m): 2:18pm On Jun 04, 2017
Clinton9000:

Afonja
honeychild:


You just disgraced yourself. You didn't even read the post before screaming afonja.
mekuzi09:

Guy, you dey see Afonja for your dream?
mekuzi09:

Guy, you dey see Afonja for your dream?
mekuzi09:

Guy, you dey see Afonja for your dream?

They are now calling themselves Afonja again. cheesy
cheesy cheesy

Nairaland Afonja Avengers don do dem shege

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by DocHMD: 4:00pm On Jun 04, 2017
Nice anti-Ewedu 'we SS' thread.

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by EzeUche(m): 4:08pm On Jun 04, 2017
Agumbankembu:
I am an Ngwa man from Obingwa, the next community is Annang community, my mum is from Annang. I feel more closer to Annang than other Igbos, because when I was growing up, the youths of our community and the youths of Annang community used to do communal farm efforts, don't know how to explain it, but our people will go help out Annang farmers this week, the other week, they come and help us out.
That is also how we used to do when it comes to Palm cultivation, the boundary between our communities is made of palm plantation, we cut palm trees together, am talking about in the 90s.
I am fluent in Annang dialect, and even now I live in Uyo, I picked up Ibibio easily.
The only place I see Igbo rabid haters from AkwACross is on NL. I have never met anyone of them in my life.
I tell people, come Abiapoly, 1/3 of the population is from AkwaCross, most of them don't go back immediately after graduation.

I feel inclined to be with my kinsmen since the whole madness started.

Ima mmi, everything you said is akpanikan.
Abasi uyong fien.
Abadie?

I often say that many Igbo clans especially in Abia are more at home with people from Akwa Ibom than they are with other Igbos.

I relate more with Ibibios as an Aro Igbo .

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by hucienda: 4:15pm On Jun 04, 2017
See fine babe.

We need more ladies here in the politics section.

Beautiful write up especially the punchline 6th and 7th sentences. Don't allow anyone e-bully you here.

Bienvenue.
Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by EzeUche(m): 4:19pm On Jun 04, 2017
Clinton9000:

Afonja

You did not take the time to read the post did you?

Reread it again and modify your comment

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by koropotopoto: 4:35pm On Jun 04, 2017
gracebae will you marry me?

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Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by BlackMbakara1(m): 5:10pm On Jun 04, 2017
Gracebae:
Still on the Niger delta question.

Ufan quite a write-up; i stand for an Ibibio/Annang/Efik nation all the way should there be a referendum any day...
Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Trut(m): 6:14pm On Jun 04, 2017
mekuzi09:
I did a thread on various ND kings, from different ethnic group pledging their support for Biafra. The thread was unfortunately brought down. The one that caught my attention the most was that of the Efik king. He was visibly angry at the status quo, from his speech. In reality, more people are getting tired of Nigeria.

Nwanne, pls recreate that thread and tag me.
Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Xway(m): 6:27pm On Jun 04, 2017
Gracebae
Ur so pretty dear
Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Candyrain(m): 6:37pm On Jun 04, 2017
mekuzi09:
I did a thread on various ND kings, from different ethnic group pledging their support for Biafra. The thread was unfortunately brought down. The one that caught my attention the most was that of the Efik king. He was visibly angry at the status quo, from his speech. In reality, more people are getting tired of Nigeria.

Would really love to see that thread
Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by Cooly100: 6:43pm On Jun 04, 2017
A well written and thought provoking piece. Well done...
Re: Biafra And The Niger Delta Question.... by rigarmortis: 6:51pm On Jun 04, 2017
Nice and insightful write up. I can relate with the Ekpe thing.

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